“... as he was to withdraw American troops from Panama. The United States was as much of an imperialist power as Britain and Japan, greedy for resources, territory and markets, part of a capitalist world system of oppression and plunder whose inherent instability had caused the Great War. Lenin’s text came to many of us in the Indian provinces as an exhilarating ...”

“... the country’s economy, though sanctions have played no small part, while his refusal to share power with the country’s growing opposition movement, much of it based in the trade unions, has led to a bitter impasse. This view of Zimbabwe’s crisis can be found everywhere, from the Economist and the Financial Times to the Guardian and the New ...”

“... men’. Then follows a remarkable passage: ‘Among the neglected men I have found Robert Bage, Henry Brooke, John Bunyan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Delaney [sic], Emanuel Ford, William Godwin, Richard Graves, Robert Greene, Robert Henryson, Charles Johnstone, Charles Lever, M.G. Lewis, Thomas Lodge, Henry MacKenzie ...”

“... a beat. I think it must be Thursday, she says, because he has to go into town every day.My father Henry is tall and thin, with a tweed sports jacket. His black hair is slicked back with a patent solution. He wears spectacles and looks very intelligent, in my opinion. He brings home the Manchester Evening News.He brings home the smell on his coat of autumn ...”

“... what emerges? The most obvious lesson for SIS is to gain and keep the confidence of those in power – the prime minister, the Foreign Office and the Armed Forces. They all need secret information and all distrust it. Menzies, the indifferent head of SIS during the Second World War, was fly enough to keep sigint under his nominal command. Even though he ...”

“... was in turn translated from a Latin version. Hall, a political conservative who wished to see the power of Parliament limited, regarded the Iliad chiefly as a poem about political obedience: the rage of Achilles at Agamemnon’s confiscation of the slave girl Briseis is not portrayed as the righteous anger of someone wronged by an overlord, but as the ...”

“... the way up the Channel, and the bulk of the English fleet was there, though a squadron under Lord Henry Seymour remained in the Downs. The whole fleet, that is to say the Queen’s ships (the Royal Navy), together with merchantmen and coasters hired by the Queen or by different towns or sailing as volunteers, came to 197 vessels carrying 15,925 men, of whom ...”

“... is the rise of protectionism, as both an economic tool and a demonstration of national virility. Henry VIII’s declaration in his 1533 Statute in Restraint of Appeals that ‘this realm of England is an empire’ has been a rallying cry for nationalists ever since. The sense of a separate national identity and of an increasingly manifest destiny becomes ...”

“... whole Church. Towns, children, parishes and days of the year were named for them. Even as late as Henry V the Battle of Agincourt was remembered as St Crispin’s day, after an obscure patron of cobblers and tanners, and Oxford still has its Hilary Term. Commemorated on 14 January, Hilary of Poitiers was a distinguished theologian, but the Legend takes more ...”

“... and intellectually arrogant. He was related on his mother’s side to the Wadsworths (as in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); his father, from a more colourful background, was a government employee at the Mint. Philadelphia was a financial centre, with thriving exchanges and a bourse; it had not produced great writers. It was only after meeting William ...”

“... may have helped for a while. But by the time of the election which returned the Conservatives to power, Labour policy-makers were starting to be concerned about how to present the party as socialist without helping the Conservatives by doing so. Socialism needed to be shown in a way that would appeal to a working class of consumers as well as producers, of ...”

“... periodically, from woodworm. The light came from candles, and in December 1755, the keeper, Henry Hall, found the lantern room on fire. No lives were lost that night but Hall himself died twelve days later, after complaining that his insides felt as if they were burning. It was not, as his friends had supposed, some form of post-traumatic shock. While ...”

“... the favourite occupation of his leisure hours had long been associated with the demonstration of power and prestige; Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (first English translation, 1561) was only the first of many treatises on aristocratic conduct to recommend drawing as an activity appropriate to men of the highest rank. Moreover, in a nation where ...”

“... the loop of time!”.’ Bayley distinguished between those writers – he had Virginia Woolf and Henry James in mind – upon whom ‘a passionate and omnivorous interest in life’ is laid as a sacred duty, and other writers – Tolstoy and Jane Austen sustained this quality – who are too far inside life to find it ‘interesting’. The art of Tolstoy ...”

“... Irish leaders of Parliamentary challenges or of rebellions which directly threatened their power. Davitt was neither. Though he ended up as a well-behaved MP, and in his last years played a part in the birth of the British Labour Party, in his prime he was a Fenian, a man who believed that to attend the English Parliament was to abet the English ...”